By! Nadine Asanté,

‘talking - promatere. came: to

they Found a local
Willing followers: wha
‘invested up to $2000 in animals
and cages.

Most of the Terracites who

long furred animals lost their.
shirts instead of raising gar-

| WEDNESDAY; DECEMBER 6, 1071

. i ments bat o one. man in persevered,
About four years .ago,' fast”

att tha. Fonual. Caribou
chilla Club. Field Day . in

-f compete with one hindred
“and ‘fourteen entries from
- central and-northern’ B,C. '

‘Last ‘month, Mr, J. Robert”
‘Cham ‘won <a. first and
prize for. his ‘chinchillas color’ as- the moet

‘Chin. -.crlteria” in juetia *
| Sequently young and Gd aa well”
‘as male and female’ were
fudged in color categories of
Dark Light, «Medium, "and
“My animals took a first prize
in the Senior female Medium
~Light and a second prize in the
Junior female Medium’, says
Mr.  Charnpou whose herd has

Quesnel,’

Mr, © “Champoux. of | 4917 ©
Highland Drive, a draughtsman.
by trade and-a chinchilla.
breeder by cholce, took two
female animals to the Field Day

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business,: Corrupt: promotors
travel the country buying in-
ferior animals. from chinchilla
ranchers ‘pnd. it is: these. low-

"grade animals which‘are sold to
“unsuspecting prospective .

breeders in - formerly .un-
solicited areas.’ |.
The original - animals ° Mr.

yg ety

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citer sane bought . “at exhor-

‘THE HERALD, TERRACE - XITEMAT, B. C.

bitant - ‘prizes ‘from.

' promoters were very’ poor’ was taken,” says Champoux,
paality stock, but. they piqued - ‘iho Aer almost four poh ati] pe
nterest in breeding better ~ haan enough pelts ‘to
animals,‘ - Inarket them on a worthwhile
“It is estimated that the Seuth acale. | -
America rodents’ cost about...” Breeders in Terrace marked
_two dollars & month per-animal “ ditdown 1 tw experience when they
for their rabbit pellet’ and - ‘hay . were ‘rdoked” but nerhape
diet and they are not aa difficult - Easterners take money losses
or vicous to raise ad'mink.-But more’ seriously. Recently in
chinchilla ‘raising ts’ still not a* Ontario, the home of a bankrupt
Boor man’s hobby. -: chinchilla promoter - who was
“T paid three hundred dollars vacationitig iri Italy at the time -
each for my first animals but

“Whe the seat of ts ia Terrace, I

was blown’as high as his gullible

‘ -gtretched. and ‘Shaped | for

_ antral : is siete one
‘- year old ao
~, have stork rolsed and teddy'f
‘the chinchilla. market ‘will marr during sinter mon
iniprove. :“Formerly there was Although commercial ° ayant
a set price for pelts but the change natural color ‘o match’
N.C.B.C., the National Chin- the whims of my lady's. fancy,
chilla Breeders ‘of Canada, is the original color of chinchilla is.
(tay. or mutations~ of black,,
white, brown or beige,
‘But black ‘white.
chinchilla: will be
money: if Mr, : Champoux: has:
_ anything to sdy about it, And:

trying to set ‘up’ an: auction
where bidders can compete for
the skins. Top price per pelt
used to, be around: ‘sixty ¢ dollars’
and now. a skin: only ‘gets
-fourteen to twenty dollars” ex:

plains this Terrace breeder: now with two prize animals ‘in’ -
Even with excellent stdck ‘and his herd he. will, moet likely do’

ideal conditions, chinchilla iu ” the .

breeding is hardly a. seet rich anes paneny _ no ”

quick’ - business © ventiire, ” The:

animals breed twice a year with - th Canada, acute respiratory

one stud servicing six. to: eight..
females and the average litter’.
numbering one to. three babies
a are weaned, at six weeks

‘The. “shina which: must” be

condith ons cause an ‘estimated
‘ million bed disability. ‘daya'a
‘year, nearly "12 million ‘school

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